1. Culture + Beliefs of societies

1.1. Angry God

1.1.2. enable people to live with risks and make sense of their lives in dangerous places

1.2. unequal power relations

1.2.1. Culture itself can enable some people and groups to have more power.

1.3. embedded in power that refuses to accept scientific evidence

1.4. prevent or produce risk increase/decrease vulnerability

1.5. affect how people perceive, prioritize risk and how they relate to other people when dealing with risks

1.6. powerful forces for influencing individual and group decisions, livelihoods, lifestyles and attitudes

1.7. Beliefs = part of the process to reduce the cognitive dissonance (=disagreement ideas) with living at risk =outside of people’s own control, but has other sources of control (god, spirits, technology)

2. Org.'l Culture

2.1. Does their definition of problems and solutions fit with the cultures, lives and risk behaviours of the people they intend to help? -a culture of working - a view about disasters and risk that may not be the same as those of the people.